PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, GOVERNOR. 1469

proceedings at law or in equity now pending against any
agents of said County on account of roads or bridges shall be
defended by the said Board of County Commissioners and any
judgment in any such proceeding shall have the same opera-
tion and effect as if it were a judgment against said Board of
County Commissioners. All liabilities now existing in connec-
tion with the roads and bridges of Prince George's County
shall be assumed by them from the date of the passage of this
Act and all future proceedings at law or in equity relating to
the roads and bridges and the Road Fund of Prince George's
County shall be brought against the said Board of County
Commissioners as the representatives of the County for such
purpose.

SEC. 284. The County Commissioners of Prince George's
County shall in their annual levy next succeeding the passage
of this Act, and in every annual levy thereafter, levy upon the
assessable property basis of Prince George's County not less
than twenty cents, nor more than thirty cents per $100 of such
assessable basis for the use of the roads and bridges of said
County. The County Treasurer of said County is hereby di-
rected to report on the first of each month, beginning June
first, of each year to the said County Commissioners the amount
of County taxes collected by him for the preceding month and
on the Tuesday next succeeding the date of such report, the
said County Commissioners are hereby directed to draw their
warrant on the County Treasurer for the use of the Road Fund
for one-half of the amount so reported collected by the Treas-
urer each month until the whole amount of money levied for road
and bridge uses in each year shall have been paid into the Road
Fund.

Should the levy for the year 1914 be made before the passage
of this Act, then the said County Commissioners, by their war-
rant on the County Treasurer, shall draw all sums levied for
the use of the roads and bridges for said County by such levy
no matter in whose name the said levy for such purpose may
have been made.

The Board of Liquor License Commissioners shall pay over
to the Board of County Commissioners all moneys collected from
liquor licenses less their proper expenses and such rebates to in-
corporated towns as are provided by law and the said Board of
County Commissioners shall apply the same as other road taxes
collected under this Act are applied. The Board of Countv